Literacy Essentials: Engagement, Excellence, and Equity for All Learners

Quick Overview

How do we ensure that all students are engaged each day in meaningful,
challenging and joyful work and have equal opportunity to learn? That is the
central question Regie Routman addresses in Literacy Essentials: Engagement,
Excellence, and Equity for All Learners. Based on her ongoing teaching, leading
and coaching in diverse schools and districts, Regie offers K-12 teachers and
leaders practical, easy-to-implement tools to help students develop as
self-determining readers, writers and learners. Literacy Essentials shows what's
possible when teachers and schools raise expectations for all students and
create an intellectual culture based on trust, collaborative expertise and
celebration of learners' strengths.

How do we ensure that all students are engaged each day in meaningful,
challenging and joyful work and have equal opportunity to learn?

That is the central question Regie Routman addresses in Literacy Essentials: Engagement, Excellence,
and Equity for All Learners. Her
response is that such an outcome is only possible within a culture of
empowerment in which all students and teachers feel encouraged and supported to
let their voices be heard, explore their passions and interests, develop deep
knowledge, and become their fullest and truest selves.

Based on her ongoing teaching, leading and coaching in diverse
schools and districts, Regie offers K–12 teachers and leaders practical,
easy-to-implement tools to help students develop as self-determining readers,
writers and learners including:

Take Action sections with specific
suggestions for authentically teaching, assessing and learning

Literacy Essentials shows what’s possible when teachers and
schools raise expectations for all students and create an intellectual culture
based on trust, collaborative expertise and celebration of learners’ strengths.